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Staying Put
Making a Home in a Restless World
Written by Scott Russell Sanders
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: April 1, 1994
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-6341-5 (0-8070-6341-X)
In the tradition of Wendell Berry, Sanders champions fidelity to place, informed by ecological awareness, arguing that intimacy with one’s home region is the grounding for global knowledge.
“Reflective, rhapsodic, luminous essays. . . . A wise and beautifully written book.” -Publishers Weekly, starred review Read more >
Making a Home in a Restless World
Written by Scott Russell Sanders
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: April 1, 1994
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-6341-5 (0-8070-6341-X)
In the tradition of Wendell Berry, Sanders champions fidelity to place, informed by ecological awareness, arguing that intimacy with one’s home region is the grounding for global knowledge.
“Reflective, rhapsodic, luminous essays. . . . A wise and beautifully written book.” -Publishers Weekly, starred review Read more >
The Arithmetic of Life and Death
Written by George Shaffner
Format: Trade Paperback, 220 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: May 1, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-42645-1 (0-345-42645-2)
In this thought-provoking primer, Shaffner cuts to the heart of real-life dilemmas great and small-whether it's the risks of smoking or the advantages of teamwork-and shows how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide your way to deeper understanding. 224 pp.
"Shaffner believes in living life by the numbers...Life not adding up? Try... Read more >
Written by George Shaffner
Format: Trade Paperback, 220 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: May 1, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-42645-1 (0-345-42645-2)
In this thought-provoking primer, Shaffner cuts to the heart of real-life dilemmas great and small-whether it's the risks of smoking or the advantages of teamwork-and shows how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide your way to deeper understanding. 224 pp.
"Shaffner believes in living life by the numbers...Life not adding up? Try... Read more >
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Art of Forgiving
Written by Lewis B. Smedes
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 12, 1997
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-41344-4 (0-345-41344-X)
Smedes offers hope and direction for all those seeking to understand and practice forgiveness. With compassion, insight, and illuminating example he explains the three stages of forgiveness. He shows why we should forgive and whom we should forgive, explains how faith can help us find the strength to forgive, and demonstrates... Read more >
Written by Lewis B. Smedes
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: August 12, 1997
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-41344-4 (0-345-41344-X)
Smedes offers hope and direction for all those seeking to understand and practice forgiveness. With compassion, insight, and illuminating example he explains the three stages of forgiveness. He shows why we should forgive and whom we should forgive, explains how faith can help us find the strength to forgive, and demonstrates... Read more >
What Nietzsche Really Said
Written by Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: January 30, 2001
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1094-1 (0-8052-1094-6)
What Nietzsche Really Said gives a lucid overview—both informative and demystifying—of perhaps the most widely read and least understood philosopher in history.
Friedrich Nietzsche’s aggressive independence, flamboyance, sarcasm, and celebrationo of strength has struck responsive chords in contemporary culuture. But Nietzsche’s ideas are often overshadowed by the myths and rumors that surround... Read more >
Written by Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Schocken
On Sale: January 30, 2001
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-8052-1094-1 (0-8052-1094-6)
What Nietzsche Really Said gives a lucid overview—both informative and demystifying—of perhaps the most widely read and least understood philosopher in history.
Friedrich Nietzsche’s aggressive independence, flamboyance, sarcasm, and celebrationo of strength has struck responsive chords in contemporary culuture. But Nietzsche’s ideas are often overshadowed by the myths and rumors that surround... Read more >
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Social and Political Philosophy
Readings From Plato to Gandhi
Written by John Somerville and Ronald Santoni
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 6, 1963
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-01238-6 (0-385-01238-1)
As an established anthology of some of the most influential social and political philosophers of Western Civilization, this book focuses on contrasting views of the origin, development, and degeneration of the state. It includes substantial selections from Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, Lenin, Dewey, Gandhi, and others.
Table of Contents
Introduction
PLATO
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Readings From Plato to Gandhi
Written by John Somerville and Ronald Santoni
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 6, 1963
Price: $18.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-01238-6 (0-385-01238-1)
As an established anthology of some of the most influential social and political philosophers of Western Civilization, this book focuses on contrasting views of the origin, development, and degeneration of the state. It includes substantial selections from Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, Lenin, Dewey, Gandhi, and others.
Table of Contents
Introduction
PLATO
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Mandela's Way
Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage
Written by Richard Stengel
Preface by Nelson Mandela
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Crown Archetype
On Sale: March 30, 2010
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-46068-4 (0-307-46068-1)
We long for heroes and have too few. Nelson Mandela is the closest thing the world has to a secular saint. He liberated a country from a system of violent prejudice and helped unite oppressor and oppressed in a way that had never been done before.
Now Time magazine editor Rick Stengel... Read more >
Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage
Written by Richard Stengel
Preface by Nelson Mandela
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Crown Archetype
On Sale: March 30, 2010
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-46068-4 (0-307-46068-1)
We long for heroes and have too few. Nelson Mandela is the closest thing the world has to a secular saint. He liberated a country from a system of violent prejudice and helped unite oppressor and oppressed in a way that had never been done before.
Now Time magazine editor Rick Stengel... Read more >
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: November 27, 2012
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6782-4 (1-4000-6782-0)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world.
Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress them, many things... Read more >
Written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: November 27, 2012
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6782-4 (1-4000-6782-0)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, reveals how to thrive in an uncertain world.
Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress them, many things... Read more >
The Black Swan: Second Edition
The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility"
Written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: May 11, 2010
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7381-5 (0-8129-7381-X)
Selected for Wellesley Reads 2010
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a... Read more >
The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility"
Written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: May 11, 2010
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7381-5 (0-8129-7381-X)
Selected for Wellesley Reads 2010
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a... Read more >
The Black Swan: Second Edition
The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility"
Written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: April 17, 2007
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6351-2 (1-4000-6351-5)
Selected for Wellesley Reads 2010
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a... Read more >
The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility"
Written by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: April 17, 2007
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6351-2 (1-4000-6351-5)
Selected for Wellesley Reads 2010
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a... Read more >
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Passion of the Western Mind
Written by Richard Tarnas
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: March 16, 1993
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-36809-6 (0-345-36809-6)
The Passion of the Western Mind is a major new presentation of the evolution of the consciousness of Western culture, from the dawn of Western civilization to the dawn of the twenty-first century. Tarnas traces the interplay of philosophy, religion, and science as they have converged to mold our culture and... Read more >
Written by Richard Tarnas
Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: March 16, 1993
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-36809-6 (0-345-36809-6)
The Passion of the Western Mind is a major new presentation of the evolution of the consciousness of Western culture, from the dawn of Western civilization to the dawn of the twenty-first century. Tarnas traces the interplay of philosophy, religion, and science as they have converged to mold our culture and... Read more >
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Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith
Written by Studs Terkel
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: November 26, 2002
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-45120-0 (0-345-45120-1)
Whether it’s Working or The Great War, the legendary oral histories of Studs Terkel have offered indispensable insights into all areas of American life. Now, at eighty-eight, the Pulitzer Prize winner creates his most important work on a subject few can comfortably discuss: death.
Here, in the voices of people both esteemed... Read more >
Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith
Written by Studs Terkel
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: November 26, 2002
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-45120-0 (0-345-45120-1)
Whether it’s Working or The Great War, the legendary oral histories of Studs Terkel have offered indispensable insights into all areas of American life. Now, at eighty-eight, the Pulitzer Prize winner creates his most important work on a subject few can comfortably discuss: death.
Here, in the voices of people both esteemed... Read more >
Walden and Other Writings
Written by Henry David Thoreau
Edited by Brooks Atkinson
Introduction by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: November 14, 2000
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-78334-3 (0-679-78334-2)
Naturalist, philosopher, champion of self-reliance and moral independence, Henry David Thoreau remains not only one of our most influential writers but also one of our most contemporary. This unique and comprehensive edition gathers all of Thoreau's most significant works (including his masterpiece Walden, reproduced in its entirety). Taken together, they reveal... Read more >
Written by Henry David Thoreau
Edited by Brooks Atkinson
Introduction by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: November 14, 2000
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-78334-3 (0-679-78334-2)
Naturalist, philosopher, champion of self-reliance and moral independence, Henry David Thoreau remains not only one of our most influential writers but also one of our most contemporary. This unique and comprehensive edition gathers all of Thoreau's most significant works (including his masterpiece Walden, reproduced in its entirety). Taken together, they reveal... Read more >
Nature, Man and Woman
Written by Alan W. Watts
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 27, 1991
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73233-4 (0-679-73233-0)
Nature, Man, and Woman challenges the Western assumptions that human beings stand separate from a nature that must be controlled, that the mind is somehow superior to the body, and that all sexuality entails a seduction. Drawing on the precepts of Taoism, Alan Watts offers an alternative vision of man and... Read more >
Written by Alan W. Watts
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 27, 1991
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73233-4 (0-679-73233-0)
Nature, Man, and Woman challenges the Western assumptions that human beings stand separate from a nature that must be controlled, that the mind is somehow superior to the body, and that all sexuality entails a seduction. Drawing on the precepts of Taoism, Alan Watts offers an alternative vision of man and... Read more >
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The Wisdom of Insecurity
A Message for an Age of Anxiety
Written by Alan W. Watts
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 8, 2011
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-74120-2 (0-307-74120-6)
Alan W. Watts’s “message for an age of anxiety” is as powerful today as it was when this modern classic was first published.
We spend too much time trying to anticipate and plan for the future; too much time lamenting the past. We often miss the pleasures of the moment in our... Read more >
A Message for an Age of Anxiety
Written by Alan W. Watts
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 8, 2011
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-74120-2 (0-307-74120-6)
Alan W. Watts’s “message for an age of anxiety” is as powerful today as it was when this modern classic was first published.
We spend too much time trying to anticipate and plan for the future; too much time lamenting the past. We often miss the pleasures of the moment in our... Read more >
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The Science Delusion
Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers
Written by Curtis White
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-1-61219-200-0 (1-61219-200-9)
One of our most brilliant social critics–author of The Middle Mind–presents a scathing critique of the “delusions” of science alongside a rousing defense of the tradition of Romanticism and the “big” questions.
With the rise of religion critics such as Richard Dawkins, and of pseudo-science advocates such as Malcolm Gladwell and Jonah... Read more >
Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers
Written by Curtis White
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: May 28, 2013
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-1-61219-200-0 (1-61219-200-9)
One of our most brilliant social critics–author of The Middle Mind–presents a scathing critique of the “delusions” of science alongside a rousing defense of the tradition of Romanticism and the “big” questions.
With the rise of religion critics such as Richard Dawkins, and of pseudo-science advocates such as Malcolm Gladwell and Jonah... Read more >
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The Essential Ken Wilber
Written by Ken Wilber
Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: September 14, 1998
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-57062-379-0 (1-57062-379-1)
Since the publication of his first book, The Spectrum of Consciousness, Wilber has been identified as the most comprehensive philosophical thinker of our times. This introductory sampler, designed to acquaint new students with his work, contains brief passages from his most popular books, ranging over a variety of topics, including levels... Read more >
Written by Ken Wilber
Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: September 14, 1998
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-57062-379-0 (1-57062-379-1)
Since the publication of his first book, The Spectrum of Consciousness, Wilber has been identified as the most comprehensive philosophical thinker of our times. This introductory sampler, designed to acquaint new students with his work, contains brief passages from his most popular books, ranging over a variety of topics, including levels... Read more >
Arguing A.I.
The Battle for Twenty-first-Century Science
Written by Sam Williams
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: AtRandom
On Sale: January 22, 2002
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-9180-2 (0-8129-9180-X)
Few scientific topics since the theory of biological evolution have inspired as much controversy as artificial intelligence has. Even now, fifty years after the term first made its appearance in academic journals, many philosophers and more than a few prominent scientists and software programmers dismiss the pursuit of thinking machines as... Read more >
The Battle for Twenty-first-Century Science
Written by Sam Williams
Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: AtRandom
On Sale: January 22, 2002
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-9180-2 (0-8129-9180-X)
Few scientific topics since the theory of biological evolution have inspired as much controversy as artificial intelligence has. Even now, fifty years after the term first made its appearance in academic journals, many philosophers and more than a few prominent scientists and software programmers dismiss the pursuit of thinking machines as... Read more >
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Evolution for Everyone
How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
Written by David Sloan Wilson
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Delacorte Press
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-34021-2 (0-385-34021-4)
"This is a book of tall claims about evolution: that it can be uncontroversial; that the basic principles are easy to learn; that everyone should want to learn them, once their implications are understood; that evolution and religion...can be brought harmoniously together."--From Evolution for Everyone
Polls show that more than half of... Read more >
How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
Written by David Sloan Wilson
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Delacorte Press
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-34021-2 (0-385-34021-4)
"This is a book of tall claims about evolution: that it can be uncontroversial; that the basic principles are easy to learn; that everyone should want to learn them, once their implications are understood; that evolution and religion...can be brought harmoniously together."--From Evolution for Everyone
Polls show that more than half of... Read more >
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God in Pain
Inversions of Apocalypse
Written by Slavoj Zizek and Boris Gunjevic
Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-369-8 (1-60980-369-8)
A brilliant dissection and reconstruction of the three major faith-based systems of belief in the world today--Christianity, Judaism, and Islam–by one of the world’s most articulate philosophers, Slavoj Zizek, in conversation with fellow Slovenian philosopher and priest Boris Gunjévic.
God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse shows how each of the world’s major... Read more >
Inversions of Apocalypse
Written by Slavoj Zizek and Boris Gunjevic
Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: April 17, 2012
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-60980-369-8 (1-60980-369-8)
A brilliant dissection and reconstruction of the three major faith-based systems of belief in the world today--Christianity, Judaism, and Islam–by one of the world’s most articulate philosophers, Slavoj Zizek, in conversation with fellow Slovenian philosopher and priest Boris Gunjévic.
God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse shows how each of the world’s major... Read more >
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